English Tutoring Center College of Arts and Humanities

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How to Get Tutoring and How to Volunteer as a Tutor at the ETC

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Please check back as we add more hours to our drop-in tutoring schedule.

To sign up for a drop-in tutoring appointment, please come by the ETC when we are open or call us at 415-338-1821. Although you may drop by to see if a tutor is available when you need one, your chances of seeing a tutor are more likely if you schedule the appointment ahead of time (because we have fairly limited drop-in hours).

For information regarding other drop-in tutoring centers on campus, please refer to the Learning Assistance Center or the Campus Academic Resource Program.

Who is eligible for tutoring at the ETC?

To be eligible for tutoring services at the ETC, you must be enrolled in one of the following English courses:

Composition Courses:

  • ENG 104: First Year Composition I
  • ENG 105: First Year Composition II
  • ENG 106: First Year Composition III
  • ENG 114: First Year Composition
  • ENG 214 Second Year Composition
  • ENG 414: Elements of Writing

Composition for Multilingual Students:

  • ENG 201: Accelerated Academic English 1--Multilingual
  • ENG 204: Effective Literacy Skills for College--Multilingual
  • ENG 208: Grammar for Writing
  • ENG 209: ESL Composition I
  • ENG 212: ESL Advanced Grammar for Writing
  • ENG 310: ESL Composition II
  • ENG 410: ESL Elements of Writing
  • ENG 411: ESL Literature & Composition

How can I sign up for weekly, one-on-one tutoring at the ETC?

During the first three weeks of every semester, English instructors refer students who they believe would benefit from tutoring at the ETC. If your instructor has not referred you, but you would like to receive tutoring, you may request an ETC tutor by doing the following:

  1. Speak with your English instructor and request a referral to the ETC. Your instructor will give you a Referral Card to bring to the ETC.
  2. Stop by the ETC during office hours to pick up a Tutoring Referral Packet.
    -OR-
    Click here to download a Referral Packet which you can fill out before coming by the ETC.
  3. Bring the completed , Tutoring Referral Card (from your teacher),Referral Packet, and a brief sample of your writing to the ETC at the beginning of the semester.
  4. Check in the following week (in person or by calling 415-338-1821) to find out if we have matched you with a tutor or not.
  5. If we have matched you with a tutor, we will enroll you in English 112, Reading and Writing Techniques, a one-unit course for which you will receive credit/no credit (CR/NC). Please see Tutee Resources for more information on receiving credit for English 112. We will notify you of your tutor's name, your weekly meeting time, and the date of your first meeting.
  6. If we were unable to match you with a tutor, we will refer you to one of the other tutoring services on campus (The Learning Assistance Center or CARP).

TO VOLUNTEER AS A TUTOR

Our volunteer tutors are graduate students and upper-classmen (Senior and Junior level undergraduates) from various disciplines such as English Composition, English Literature, Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL), Linguistics, Comparative Literature, or Creative Writing. We encourage students who are interested in teaching, and who would like to gain tutoring experience, to volunteer. Though we require proficiency in spoken English, previous tutoring experience is not necessary.

To become a tutor:

  1. Obtain a tutor card either from your instructor or the ETC.
  2. Fill the tutor card completely. Be sure to include specific times you are available to tutor. Make sure the hour availability on your card is accurate and gives us as many placement options (hours) as possible. Please turn in your tutoring card to the ETC as soon as possible (no later than the third week in the semester).
  3. To receive credit, enroll in ENG 699 (if undergraduate) or ENG 899(if graduate). You can earn one unit for tutoring two students, two units for tutoring four students and three units for tutoring five students.Please contact the ETC for more information.
  4. The ETC will offer two training sessions back-to-back at the beginning of the semester -- the first, an orientation on the administrative aspects of tutoring, the second, an introductory workshop about tutoring methods and issues. All new tutors are required to attend the first orientation, during which you will receive your tutoring assignment.

Who can use the private rooms at the ETC?

Priority is given to ETC tutors and students for usage of the two private rooms in the ETC: 290B and 290C. Sign-up sheets are posted outside of each room.

English instructors may also use 290B and 290C to meet with students. However, in consideration of our tutors and students, we ask that you reserve no longer than one two-hour block per day for these meetings (except for the first month of each semester).

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